Urban Environmental Quality and Human Health: Conceiving a Sustainable Future

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.07.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Objectives
  2. Strategies
  3. Classroom Activities
  4. Appendix A - Implementing District Standards
  5. Appendix B - Glossary of Acronyms
  6. Appendix C - Useful Conversion Factors
  7. Appendix D - Graphic Organizer for Sources of Human Exposure
  8. Appendix E - Pesticides Problem Set
  9. Appendix F - Interpreting Tables and Graphs, 1 18
  10. Appendix G - Interpreting Tables and Graphs, 2 19
  11. Appendix H - Interpreting Tables and Graphs, 3
  12. Resources for teachers
  13. Governmental Sources for Pesticide Data
  14. Endnotes

Environmental Health Issues Meet Algebra

Nancy Rudolph

Published September 2008

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Endnotes

1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, About Pesticides.

2. Wargo, Our Children's Toxic Legacy, 306

3. Ibid., 307.

4. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Inspector General. Opportunities to Improve Data Quality & Children's Health through the Food Quality Protection Act, 8.

5. Wargo, 263.

6. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Inspector General, 16.

7. John Wargo, Green Intelligence, Ch. 13.

8. Wargo, Our Children's Toxic Legacy, 265.

9. EXTONET. Extension Toxicology Network-Toxicology Information Briefs.

10. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. US EPA Chlorpyrifos: Occupational/Residential Handler & Postapplication Residential Risk Assessment.

11. Wargo, Green Intelligence, Ch. 13.

12. Math Skills Review. Dimensional Analysis.

13. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Pesticide Programs. Organophosphorus Cumulative Risk Assessment-2006 Update, 98.

14. Ibid., 84.

15. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. US EPA Chlorpyrifos: Revised Acute Dietary Risk Assessment.

16. Ibid.

17. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. US EPA Chlorpyrifos: Occupational/Residential Handler & Postapplication Residential Risk Assessment.

18. U.S. Department of Agriculture, 24.

19. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Pesticide Programs. Organophosphorus Cumulative Risk Assessment-2006 Update, 51.

20. Ibid., 98.

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